Immunization Associate

ABOUT VILLAGEREACH

VillageReach transforms health care delivery to reach everyone. We are driven by a vision of a world where each person has the health care needed to thrive. VillageReach’s goal is to reduce inequities in access to quality primary health care for 350 million people by 2030. We work with governments, the private sector, partners and communities to build responsive primary health care systems that deliver health products, information and services to the most under-reached. As a locally driven and globally connected organization, VillageReach has offices in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and the United States.

Summary

The Associate – Immunization plays a vital role in supporting the successful implementation, scale-up, and sustainability of digital solutions that strengthen vaccine supply chains and immunization programs in four states in Nigeria: Kaduna, Kano, Katsina and Sokoto. Working closely with government partners, health system stakeholders, and VillageReach Nigeria and global teams, this position helps ensure high-quality data, effective program coordination, and evidence-informed decision-making. Through this work, the Associate contributes to VillageReach's mission of improving equitable access to life-saving health products and strengthening resilient, government-led health systems.

Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time.

Key Responsibilities

Government Liaison & Program Coordination

- Serve as a day-to-day point of contact with NPHCDA at the national level, supporting information flow, joint planning and follow-up between VillageReach and government counterparts.
- Support state co-design workshops, operational planning sessions, and coordination meetings (including the National Logistics Working Group (NLWG) and State Logistics Working Groups (SLWG)), including preparation of materials, note-taking and tracking of agreed actions.
- Work with State Technical Officers to track health facility use of last mile vaccine stock visibility tools, reporting performance, and support needs across Kaduna, Kano, Katsina and Sokoto.
- Help coordinate with other technical partners working on the last mile vaccine stock visibility platform and with related Nigeria supply chain investments.

Implementation Support Across Project Phases

- Support system and data-flow testing coordination, health facility verification and baseline data collection and documentation.
- Help track targeted health facility support, coordinate helpdesk/WhatsApp support channels and follow up on unresolved reporting or account issues.
- Help prepare dashboards and management products for SLWG reviews, document decisions and follow-up actions from performance review meetings.
- Support sustainability planning by helping compile evidence to verify readiness for transition, contribute to state continuation plans and the national last mile vaccine stock visibility documentation and learning playbook.

Monitoring, Data Quality & Reporting

- Support routine monitoring of last mile vaccine stock visibility reporting completeness, timeliness and data quality, flagging issues for follow-up with LGA and state teams.
- Contribute to weekly internal project performance reviews and quarterly cross-state review meetings.
- Support the Project Manager and M&E lead with quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis, synthesis and documentation, and narrative inputs for donor progress reports.

Program & Administrative Coordination

- Support the Project Manager in tracking the project workplan, timelines and deliverables against the results tracker.
- Coordinate logistics for state visits, workshops and meetings involving VillageReach staff, subawardees and government counterparts.
- Assist with drafting internal and external communications, briefs and presentations related to the project.
- Support compliance with grant and organizational requirements, including documentation of the project's gender-responsive implementation approach.

Competencies:

VillageReach has ten (10) Organizational Competencies that describe how we work together and get things done that are grouped into three strategic areas of Achieving Great Results, Setting Direction and, Bringing Others With you. For a full description, please download our Organizational Competency document.

Achieving Great Results:

1. Risk Taking and Innovation

· Key Behaviors: Comfort with ambiguity, curiosity, adaptability, unconstrained and undeterred creativity, resourcefulness.

2. Business Judgement

· Key Behaviors: Getting to root causes, understanding environment, navigating complexity and ambiguity, entrepreneurial energy.

3. Building Strong Teams

· Key Behaviors: Trust in Subject Matter Experts (SME’s); radical candor to resolve conflict, hold each other accountable as colleagues, focused on results, commitment to mission.

Setting Direction:

4. Compelling Communication

· Key Behaviors: Clear and evidence-based communication, audience adaptability, curious listener.

5. Resilient Self Leadership

· Key Behaviors: Self-aware, plan how one shows up, emotionally intelligent, use one’s own agency and takes accountability.

6. Stewardship and Personal Alignment

· Key Behaviors: Take ownership, display ethical conduct, effective at resource management, alignment of personal objectives with organizational goals and mission, focus on continuous improvement and sustainability.

Bringing Others with You:

7. Influencing Leadership

· Key Behaviors: Cultivate trust, influences to make change, navigate the matrix structure.

8. Radical Partnership

· Key Behaviors: Share information and credit, address conflict, increase impact through collaboration, political and contextual awareness.

9. Cultivates a Growth Mindset

· Key Behaviors: Seek out diverse input, demonstrate flexibility in thinking and curiosity, embrace challenges, demonstrate persistence, seek learning opportunities.

10. Cultural Intelligence and Inclusion

· Key Behaviors: Continuous learning and ally-ship across cultural lines, challenge prejudice and bias, modeled in one’s own behavior.

Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Education & Experience:

Education

- Bachelor's degree required.
- Graduate degree (or equivalent experience) in public health, international development, health systems, or a related field preferred – consistent with VillageReach's Associate-level (T7) career pathway.

Experience

- Minimum of 4+ years of relevant experience in public health, immunization or vaccine supply chain, health information systems, or program implementation.
- Experience with programmatic monitoring and evaluation, including designing and implementing a monitoring and evaluation approach in response to key learning questions, quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis, and routine use of data for programmatic decision-making in a fast-paced project setting
- Experience working with or alongside government health institutions in Nigeria strongly preferred; familiarity with NPHCDA, State Primary Health Care Boards, and LGA-level health structures is an asset.
- Experience supporting donor-funded programs and familiarity with grant reporting requirements is a plus.

Other Qualifications:

- Established cultural competency in partnering with racial, cultural and linguistically diverse groups.
- Demonstrated understanding of challenges with working in rural, underserved and low-income context; experience living in and/or working in a low-income country a plus.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel) and comfortable in a fast-paced technical environment.
- Working knowledge of, or willingness to quickly learn, digital health/data systems such as DHIS2 and OpenLMIS.
- Strong coordination, organizational and follow-through skills; comfortable managing multiple work streams and stakeholders simultaneously.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Sound judgment and problem-solving ability; comfortable devising solutions with limited information and working independently between check-ins.
- Demonstrated cultural sensitivity and ability to work respectfully and effectively with government officials, health workers and community stakeholders, including attentiveness to gender-responsive programming.
- Willingness and ability to travel within Nigeria, including to Kaduna, Kano, Katsina and Sokoto States.

Environment and Physical Demands:

VillageReach employees typically work in a shared, open environment with task and conference rooms accessible to employees for privacy and meetings. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet. Due to the time zone differences across our USA, Kenya and Country Offices and location of other global staff, we have established core collaboration hours between 6am Pacific Time and 18:00 South Africa Time (GMT+1) Monday through Thursday. All staff, regardless of location are expected to be available between these hours. During Daylight Savings Time, this allows for 12 hours per week (3 hours/day) of collaboration time and during Standard Time, 8 hours (2 hours/day). We do not hold cross-office meetings on Friday.

Approximately 90% of the day will spent sitting on non-travel days. On travel days or during field visits, up to 75% of the day may be spent standing.

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION:

VillageReach is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer committed to workforce diversity. We believe that diverse, equitably weighted perspectives foster an organizational capacity to create novel solutions that improve health in the most under-reached and hard-to-reach areas. To align our values, innovations and impact, VillageReach is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse global workforce.

APPLICATION INFORMATION:

This is an immediate hire and therefore resumes will be reviewed on a rolling basis until October 9th, 2026, but may close abruptly. To apply, please submit your resume, a cover letter, plus four short answer responses to our online portal: http://www.villagereach.org/join-us/. In your cover letter, please address (1)Why you are interested in this position, (2)What is one reason you think you’d be a good fit for this position and, (3)what is one strength you would bring to this position?

Hiring Process:

The hiring process will include the following steps:

1. Review submitted applications

2. Conduct 20-30 minute screening interviews for shortlisted candidates

3. Conduct skills and value-based interviews for 3-5 candidates.

4. Request that top candidates submit a practical assessment (designed to take no more than two hours to complete). Sometimes the assignment will occur before the interview.

5. Conduct final interview if necessary

6. Request references

7. Make offer

8. Conduct background check

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted, but candidates who proceed to step 2 will be notified if they are not chosen for step 3.

Safeguarding:

VillageReach is committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults, and beneficiaries with whom it engages. We expect everyone working with us to share this commitment through our code of conduct. All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which may include criminal records. VillageReach participates in the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme and, in line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By applying, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.